The lived experience of formative assessment practice in a British university

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-223

  Asghar, Mandy ^a  

^a YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activity theory; assessment for learning; formative assessment; signature pedagogies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860112298     PISSN: 0309877X     EISSN: 14699486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2011.606901     Document Type: Article

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